Gender stereotyping claims can arise from comments about attire, hair, makeup, jewelry, style, expressions, mannerisms, or even the most innocuous habits, such as neatness or pushing copier buttons with pizzazz.

27-year-old Austrian student Max Schrems decided to spearhead a class-action lawsuit against the social media giant, claiming that Facebook had been complicit in the U.S. government’s collection of personal data.

Rapidly changing technologies and exciting new products offer seemingly limitless opportunities for growth and progress across a broad range of industries. But the same innovative qualities that make new products likely to gain widespread publicity may also attract unwanted – and unwarranted – attention from the plaintiffs’ bar and others...